export declare const READ_MAX_RANGE = 500;
export declare const READ_MAX_FILE_SIZE: number;
export interface ClipSlice {
    filePath: string;
    startLine: number;
    endLine: number;
    totalLines: number;
    content: string;
}
export interface ClipError {
    statusCode: number;
    message: string;
}
export type ReadClipResult = {
    ok: true;
    clip: ClipSlice;
} | {
    ok: false;
    error: ClipError;
};
/**
 * Read a slice of a file between two 1-indexed inclusive line numbers.
 * Semantics match `sed -n '<start>,<end>p' <filePath>`.
 */
export declare function readFileSlice(filePath: string, startLine: number, endLine: number): Promise<ReadClipResult>;